SciShow Kids
Where Can We Find Water? | SciShow Kids
New ReviewWhere does water come from? If you turn on the faucet, there's water. But it goes on an incredible journey to get there. Today, Jessi and Squeaks learn about all the places we can find water.
SciShow Kids
Yellowstone: The World’s First National Park! | SciShow Kids
New ReviewSqueaks is back from his trip around the world! In this episode, he and Jessi discuss the first stop on his trip: Yellowstone National Park.
SciShow Kids
How Eyes Let Us See The World | SciShow Kids
New ReviewSqueaks is heading on a trip around the world! He's going to see so much, and wants Jessi to experience those sights, too. In this episode, he learns about how humans (and a couple of other animal guests) see.
TED Talks
How to end factory farming | Lewis Bollard
New ReviewFactory farming is the greatest moral crisis we ignore, says farm animal welfare champion Lewis Bollard. He exposes the truth behind the "all natural" labels on your groceries and shows how technology and public pressure can uncover the...
PBS
The Mystery of South America's False Horses
How did the "false horse," Thoatherium, and its relatives survive when their hoofed legs seemed to be adapted for an ecosystem that wouldn't exist for another 12 million years?
PBS
How the Himalayas Changed the World
The rise of the Himalayas affected more than just the immediate area. Turns out, we may have them to thank for everything from the rise of giant flightless birds in Madagascar; to the disappearance of plants from Antarctica; to the...
PBS
What Happened To The Other Mesozoic Mammals?
In 2003, a fossil belonging to a mammaliaform was discovered in an ancient lakebed in what's now China. It was an almost complete skeleton the size of a platypus, a find that complicated the history of mammaliaforms. It painted a picture...
PBS
When Neandertals Became Apex Predators
Climbing to the summit of the Eurasian food chain was one of the Neandertals’ most impressive evolutionary feats, but in the end, it may have actually been what doomed them.
PBS
How Mountains Make Evolution Weird
Mountains have a unique effect on diversity, messing with our understanding of animals through time, and pretty much just making evolution weird. And they would eventually reveal something even stranger about a group of mammals even...
Be Smart
Why Don’t Humans Hibernate?
Nature has had to come up with some crazy ways to survive harsh winters. But none are weirder than hibernation. Turns out there is more than one kind of hibernation, and studying all these ways that life slows down in the cold might help...
PBS
The Dinosaurs Too Big To Be Dinosaurs
How did sauropods, uniquely large land animals, actually live, with their anatomy and physiology pushed to such extremes? Well, their unprecedented gigantism came with some equally massive costs…
Be Smart
Is this Chicken?
Our appetite for meat is one of the greatest environmental challenges we face. Join me on a mind-blowing visit to UPSIDE Foods, the world's most advanced cultivated meat production facility, as we ask whether cultivated meat can deliver...
SciShow
Why Beaches Need More Sand
Adding sand to beaches sounds like it's an oxymoronic thing to do, but it's totally a thing. And there's some major benefits, like protecting our coastlines from storms and conserving ecosystems. But there are also some major drawbacks,...
SciShow
Does the Moon Control Your Period?
People have been making the connection between the moon's phases and the menstrual cycle for centuries. But when it comes to controlling periods, we may have been looking at the wrong thing in the sky. Hosted by: @NotesByNiba (she/her)
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The Biggest Marine Reptile Ever (Was Found By An 11 Year Old)
When it comes to major discoveries in paleontology, you usually picture a bunch of old professors in khaki digging in the desert. But when Ruby Reynolds discovered a truly groundbreaking ichthyosaur fossil that sheds light on what may be...
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How Leeches Are Helping to Save Endangered Species
Leeches are bloodsucking parasites, and you wouldn't think they're great at protecting other species. Yet for some conservationists, these little vampires are one of the best tools available for conserving endangered and threatened...
SciShow
We Can't Find the Most Important Fossils Ever
About 360-ish million years ago, some tetrapods moved onto land and changed the course of history. So we'd love to know more about these guys, and what it took to get there. But the thing is, the fossils we need to understand this...
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We've Been Collecting This Fossil for 15,000 Years
Trilobites are one of the most iconic fossil animals out there. And people have loved them for centuries! Let's talk about the people across time and space who have loved collecting trilobites, from Elrathia to Calymene, going back...
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How a Die-Off of Vultures Cost a Country Billions
Vultures aren't most people's favorite animal. But when they began dying in India, they set in motion a domino effect that spread disease and cost the government billions of dollars. Hosted by: Jaida Elcock (she/her)
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6 Futuristic Fishing Nets
When fishermen cast their nets, they often catch a lot more than the species they're after. Those unlucky creatures are called bycatch, and it's a huge problem in the industry. Fortunately, scientists have been working hard to solve it...
Crash Course
Animal Defense Systems: How Skin, Snot, and Cells Keep Us Healthy: Crash Course Biology #45
The world is full of microbes and viruses that can get us sick, but we’ve got an Avengers-style defense system ready to take them on. In this episode of Crash Course Biology, we’ll learn about an animal’s immune system, from their skin...
Crash Course
Community Ecology: Interspecies Interactions: Crash Course Biology #6
Community ecology is the study of interactions between different species of living things, and lets ecologists examine the effects of predator-prey relationships, parasites, and mutually beneficial interactions. In this episode of Crash...
Crash Course
Biological Diversity, Butts, and the Tree of Life: Crash Course Biology #18
Everywhere you look on Earth, you’ll find wonderful and diverse living things, from tiny tardigrades to soaring sequoias. And incredibly, everything alive today, and everything that’s ever lived, is related. In this episode of Crash...
TED Talks
Can AI help us speak with wolves? | Jeffrey T. Reed
Why do wolves howl? With the help of AI, we're getting closer to an answer. Linguist and software engineer Jeffrey T. Reed shares his research on wolf sounds in the wild, revealing the surprisingly complex range of vocalizations — barks,...